Back in Time: Unshackling From Love

Chapter 17

As Mikayla laughed, tears streamed down her face.

Images from her previous life of being beaten, cursed at, and tortured at the mental hospital flashed before her eyes.

In the flashback, the hefty caretaker had gripped her by the hair, forcefully pulling her away and causing her only bowl of plain soup to spill.

They would even forcefully pinch her mouth when she refused to take her medication, shoving handfuls of pills down her throat.

Mikayla always thought it was the mental hospital deliberately tormenting her to please

Jerome.

Little did she know, the demonic woman from the previous life was Kylie’s relative.

So, all the misery she endured in the mental hospital was orchestrated by Kylie.

Thinking about the abuse she suffered and the torment from stomach cancer, Mikayla wished she could immediately strangle Kylie.

Why did she have to be so cruel?

Jerome, who clearly loved Kylie so much, had even sent Mikayla to the mental hospital for the former’s good.

Why wouldn’t Kylie let her go? Why did she have to harm her?

Jerome looked at Mikayla on the floor.

Although she had suggested keeping the audio call on, he still worried that something might go wrong, so he followed her up.

Unexpectedly, he witnessed Mikayla attacking someone as soon as the elevator doors opened.

She lay slumped amidst a chaotic mess of fruits, her eyes vacant, her body seemingly devoid of strength.

Though her face showed a smile, tears flowed incessantly, as if she had suffered some painful and tragic ordeal, radiating endless hatred and resentment.

Strangely, Jerome’s heart didn’t fill with anger at her madness. Instead, a dull ache

serthed within him:

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Mikayla

her neck from Mikayla’s grip, Jerome instruct ed the woman who was standing there in a

hurriedly fetched the first

down and then

tugged at her arm. “Get

arm, it

felt a

up here to apologize? What’s with this madness again?” he asked, furrowing his brows.

voice. Her eyes began to focus, and

felt a sense of relief.

with

and her tone

brows tightened further as

life over

the first aid

you trying

woman approached at that moment, carrying the first aid kit.

Mikayla stand up, but she coldly pushed him away.

back to her feet on her own, adjusted her clothes, and walked away without

to chase after Mikayla to find out what had happened,

a stifled groan of

the one responsible for the

before coming to a complete stop. “Shall

her pale face, Kylie shook her head. “I’m

deeper,

woman helped Kylie stop the bleeding while asking, “Who was that person just now? Why did she come in and attack you right away?”

“She might have misunderstood

you’re just too kind. You’ve been bullied like this, and you’re still defending her. I think we should call the police and have

Jerome’s slightly furrowed brows, Kylie said to the round–faced woman, “Aunt Agatha, please go back for now. If there’s

she could tell it wasn’t

well. If you need someone to look

just happened? Why